Sentences with phrase «sympathy for politicians»

It's another issue turning that into policy, for governments, and it's very easy for all of us who don't have to be elected to say «this is how I would do it», and I have a lot of sympathy for our politicians, because they are dealing with extremely selfish populations.»

The sympathy for politicians during this expenses saga has been non-existent.

By the very act of putting the individual politician centre stage, political fiction usually goes some way to elicit sympathy for the politician.

Not exact matches

The political trick, then, for local politicians is to appear stable in the eyes of the authorities, at the same time making sure the public knows of their sympathies for the pro-PLO leanings of the populace.

However, I am a pragmatic politician and, as such, have some sympathy for the view that allowing prisoners to vote would help rehabilitate at least some of them.

Many US politicians and voters also have some sympathy for the situation of the 21 % of Israel's population who are Arab.

-LSB-...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

The public has little sympathy with the issues and politicians can scrap pubic funding for social welfare law, family etc without having to think too hard about the human consequences.

Research commissioned by the Lowitja Institute in 2015 showed that, despite the myth of little sympathy for offenders among the general public — a situation that is often exploited by politicians to perpetuate punitive policies — citizens are open to the idea of alternatives to incarceration, and to the provision of better services and programs that address the social, cultural and economic determinants of crime.